Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Expedia gets $1.2 billion investment from Silver Lake and Apollo; appoints new CEO
(Reuters) - Online travel services provider Expedia Group Inc said on Thursday private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Apollo Global Management Inc would invest about $1.2 billion in the company...
Apr 23, 2020
Glad to be helping: refugee Syrian film-maker turns London hospital cleaner
LONDON (Reuters) - On a coronavirus ward in an east London hospital, award-winning film-maker Hassan Akkad, a refugee from Syria, is working as a cleaner, joining the fight against the pandemic in his...
Apr 23, 2020
African nations to get 300 ventilators from Jack Ma Foundation
By Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African nations that lack ventilators for the treatment of COVID-19 patients will receive some from a donation of 300 supplied by the Jack Ma Foundation, t...
Apr 23, 2020
Lockdown exit in France will not be done region by region: presidency
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron told mayors that unwinding the coronavirus lockdown would not be done region by region, the presidency's office said on Thursday. Mayors were also to...
Apr 23, 2020
Shuttered businesses appoint lawyers to take on UK insurer Hiscox
LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of British businesses, shuttered by a government lockdown to curb the coronavirus pandemic, have appointed lawyers to take on insurer Hiscox saying its refusal to compensat...
Apr 23, 2020
Spray it, don't say it: Kenya graffiti artists spread health message
By Ayenat Mersie NAIROBI (Reuters) - A six-foot image of a sad-eyed man, baseball cap askew and mask covering his nose and mouth is spray painted on a building in a Nairobi slum. Next to it are the wo...
Apr 23, 2020
Traffic light for bathroom break is new normal in coronavirus Italy
By Matteo Berlenga BASTIA UMBRA, Italy (Reuters) - Simone Mela never dreamed that a traffic light would determine when he could take a bathroom break in the factory where he works. But in the world ac...
Apr 23, 2020
Face masks to strawberries: Abu Dhabi hospital keeps tabs on resources
By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Dozens of N95 protective face masks hang on a line in a room of an Abu Dhabi hospital to be decontaminated so they can be used again by medical staff should...
Apr 23, 2020
EMA warns against malaria drugs' side effects in COVID-19 use
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Union's drug regulator warned again on Thursday against using two older malaria drugs to treat COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, outside trials or national ...
Apr 23, 2020
China's Hisense to cut about 23% of jobs in Europe
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Chinese household appliances maker Hisense will cut about 2,200 jobs in Europe by the end of the year because of a coronavirus-related demand slump, Slovenia-based Hisense Europe...
Apr 23, 2020
